New CFTC Division of Market Oversight Director Amir Zaidi stated that the division would focus less on enforcement and more on market intelligence and policy reform.

University of Houston Finance Professor Craig Pirrong criticized regulators for concentrating on reforming the OTC derivatives market while ignoring the "myriad connections of this market to other parts of the financial market."

The CFTC released an agenda for a public meeting of the Market Risk Advisory Committee to be held on April 25th 2017.

The CFTC fined a Minnesota dairy and ingredients company for accepting orders for the purchase and sale of milk futures contracts without being registered as a Futures Commission Merchant.

The Office of Financial Research described an approach to create a terms and reference database and standard document formats for financial reporting.